Spring Cover for SpongeBob Magazine

This cover for SpongeBob SquarePants Magazine ran last spring (see, “spring?” Get it? ahem.). Drawing in pencil and Photoshop. Inked in Adobe Illustrator. Painted in ArtRage 2.5 except the background elements which I stole borrowed from old production backgrounds. Usually I paint every background from scratch, but I was in a real deadline crunch. Below are a whole bunch of preliminary sketches and layouts…

6 comments:

Jordan
said...

Sherm, you are the man! I haven't made a comment for months now (sorry!), but I've been checking out all your posts in my RSS feeder all the time. Just wanted to say thanks again for again sharing & I love seeing your process with the spongebob stuff!

Mykal: Oh! Okay...the problem was that I was that on my poorly-calibrated too-bright monitor I couldn't even see the shading you're talking about. That's what my confusion was. I certainly didn't mean to belittle such a nice compliment. Thank you! :)